Don Ceder Explained

Don Ceder
Office1:Member of the House of Representatives
Term Start1:31 March 2021
Office2:Member of the Amsterdam municipal council
Term Start2:29 March 2018
Term End2:31 March 2021[1]
Successor2:Tjitske Kuiper
Office3:Dutch; Flemish: Duo-commissielid of the States of North Holland
Term Start3:26 May 2015[2]
Term End3:12 September 2018
Successor3:Marijke Terlouw
Birth Name:Don Guno Maria Ceder
Birth Date:20 October 1989
Birth Place:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Party:Christian Union
Alma Mater:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Residence:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation:Lawyer

Don Guno Maria Ceder[3] (born 20 October 1989) is a Dutch lawyer and politician, serving as a member of House of Representatives since the 2021 general election.

After studying law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he founded a company with his cousin, but left in 2015 to start his own law practice. He won a seat in the Amsterdam municipal council three years later as a member of the political party Christian Union.

Early life and education

Ceder was born on 20 October 1989 in the Dutch capital Amsterdam to a Surinamese father and a Ghanaian mother.[4] [5] He has a brother, a half-brother, and a half-sister, and he grew up in the Zuidoost neighborhood Bijlmermeer.[6] [7] Ceder's parents split up when he was in elementary school, and he was subsequently raised by his mother.[3] He attended the secondary school Sint-Nicolaaslyceum at gymnasium level.[8] He studied law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam starting at age seventeen and earned his Master of Laws degree in 2013.[9] [10] While studying, he had an internship at the Christian Union for nine months.[7] Before, he had been a member of the Labour Party for a short period.[11]

Legal career

In January 2014, Ceder and his cousin Calvin Ceder founded a company providing legal advice to people targeted by debt collectors called Anti-Incasso.[4] [12] Besides, he worked as spokesperson for Stichting ConTel, a consumer organization helping telecom users.[13]

Ceder left Anti-Incasso to start his own solo law practice in March 2015 called Ceder Advocatuur, that is focussed on defending people in debt.[14] [15] He had been admitted to the bar the month before.[8] In 2018, business magazine Forbes placed him on their European 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy list.[16] The following year, he successfully helped a woman get her aborted child registered in the Dutch civil registry shortly after a law was passed that makes this possible after a miscarriage. The woman, who later came to regret the abortion, told her story in an episode of the EO television program NieuwLicht.[17] Ceder started taking on less cases in 2019 because of his position as municipal councilor.[18] He represented over 15 parents who were caught up in the childcare benefits scandal.[19]

Next to his job as lawyer and politician, Ceder is a reservist in the Royal Dutch Army, where he is a second lieutenant.[20]

Politics

Local and regional

Ceder first ran for political office in the 2014 municipal election. He was in third place on the Christian Union's party list in Amsterdam, but his party did not win any seats in the municipal council.[21] In the 2015 provincial elections, Ceder was placed second on the shared list of the Christian Union and the Reformed Political Party in North Holland.[22] He was not elected, as his party won one seat, but he was appointed Dutch; Flemish: duo-commissielid, meaning that he could not vote but could participate in committee meetings.[5]

Ceder ran again for Amsterdam municipal councilor in the March 2018 election, this time being the party's Dutch; Flemish: [[lijsttrekker]]. The Christian Union won a single seat, marking the first time the party had been part of the Amsterdam council.[23] He was sworn in on 29 March and was the youngest member of the council.[24] [25] Due to his workload as councilman, Ceder left the States of North Holland a few months later.[26] In 2019, he was on the lists for the provincial election (place 9) and the European Parliament election (place 29), but he was not elected.[27] [28] In the municipal council, Ceder has advocated providing more public services to undocumented minors and bringing an end to deportations of children who have been living in the Netherlands for over five years.[29] [30] He has also proposed ending window prostitution in the city and creating a homeless shelter that is opened 24 hours a day.[31] [32]

House of Representatives

He ran for member of parliament (MP) during the 2017 general election, being placed seventh on the party list.[5] His party won five seats, and Ceder received 8,276 preferential votes – not enough to be elected. When MP Stieneke van der Graaf went on maternity leave in March 2019 and Ceder was asked to temporarily fill her seat, he declined, saying he wanted to continue his work as council member.[33] He again appeared on the Christian Union's party list for the 2021 election as number four.[34] During the anti-abortion Week of Life, he called for a reevaluation of the Dutch 24-week limit for legal abortions, arguing that some fetuses are viable before that time.[35] Ceder also defended the five-day waiting period for abortions, also in case of rape, in an interview during the campaign.[36] He was elected, having received 10,318 preference votes, and was sworn in as member of parliament on 31 March 2021. Ceder left the municipal council that same day.[1] In the House, he was on the Committees for Digital Affairs, for Foreign Affairs, for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, for the Interior, for Kingdom Relations, and for Social Affairs and Employment, and he serves as his party's spokesperson for asylum, immigration, social affairs, employment, youth, foreign affairs, digital affairs, kingdom relations, history of slavery, and anti-discrimination.[37] [38]

A motion by Ceder was carried by the House in July 2021 in which he called for an independent investigation into the Netherlands' history of slavery. The results were finally published in the report State and Slavery.[39] Furthermore, Ceder was critical of the cabinet for a lack of central leadership during the evacuations of Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul in August 2021.[40] When the Dutch asylum system was suffering from capacity problems and refugees had to sleep outside at the Dutch application center in Ter Apel the following year, Ceder represented his party in negotiations among the coalition parties. The resulting asylum deal included additional funding for accommodation as well as the postponement of family reunions. Ceder defended the deal together with party leader Gert-Jan Segers during an extra party congress, saying that he regretted the latter compromise but that the deal on the whole was a step forward.[41] Ceder also focused on municipal welfare, working on a bill to allow municipalities to be more lenient with reimbursements by recipients in case of mistakes.[42] Furthermore, he presented a plan in 2023 to reform debt collection. He railed against the amount of money made by the industry and decried buy now, pay later services that make part of their profit through late payments. Ceder proposed that the creditor should keep responsibility over the debt collection to prevent malpractices by owners of resold debt, and he wanted to mandate collectors to investigate whether the debtor could pay the debt.[43] [44]

Ceder was an advocate of a ban of social media platform TikTok, which was especially popular amongst children. Its updated privacy policy had raised fears that it would allow the Chinese government to access user data.[45]

He was re-elected to the House in November 2023, and his areas of expertise were expanded to include defense, education, culture, and science.[38]

Personal life

Ceder was a resident of the Amsterdam borough Zuidoost as of 2018, and he got married in January 2023.[46] [47] He is a member of the Safe Haven Church, which formerly belonged to the Pentecostalist denomination Victory Outreach, and played a disciple in the 2018 edition of The Passion, that was held in his hometown.[48] [49] In his twenties, he danced and acted in plays.[46] He also performs as a DJ.[5]

Ceder has a stutter.[50]

Electoral history

Year! scope="col" rowspan=2
BodyPartyVotesResult.
Party seatsIndividual
2017House of RepresentativesChristian Unionstyle=text-align:right 7style=text-align:right 8,276style=text-align:right 5[51]
2021House of RepresentativesChristian Unionstyle=text-align:right 4style=text-align:right 10,318style=text-align:right 5[52]
2023House of RepresentativesChristian Unionstyle=text-align:right 3style=text-align:right 11,213style=text-align:right 3[53]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Openbare vergadering op woensdag 31 maart 2021 . Public meeting on Wednesday 31 March 2021 . nl . 18 May 2021 . 19 April 2021 . . 13 and 14 .
  2. Beëdiging Don Ceder . ChristenUnie Noord-Holland . 20 October 2020 . Dutch . Swearing in of Don Ceder . 27 May 2015 .
  3. ChristenUnie: Don Ceder . Christian Union: Don Ceder . nl . Radhakishun . Prem . Ceder . Don . Prem Radhakishun . 21 March 2021 . Zwarte Prietpraat . . 15 March 2021 .
  4. Web site: Mr. D.G.M. (Don) Ceder . 19 October 2020 . Dutch . Parlement.com . Parlementair Documentatie Centrum .
  5. News: Advocaat Don Ceder gaat van de Bijlmer naar het Binnenhof . Lawyer Don Ceder moves from the Bijlmer to the Binnenhof . . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . 18 October 2016 . Keultjes . Hanneke .
  6. Don Ceder, de lessen van zijn moeder en wat hij wil doen als Kamerlid . 8 December 2020 . Dutch . 6 November 2020 . Buzzsprout . Christian Union . 02:42 . Don Ceder, the lessons from his mother and what he wants to achieve as MP . Segers . Gert-Jan . Gert-Jan Segers .
  7. Ceder . Don . Andere stem . Different voice . Dutch . 14 February 2017 . . Robert Vuijsje .
  8. Don Ceder, Advocaat . Youth Case . Ceder . Don . Don Ceder, Lawyer . Dutch . 20 October 2020 . 21 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201021151400/https://youthcase.nl/interviews/don-ceder/ . dead .
  9. News: Amsterdammer Don Ceder op kandidatenlijst ChristenUnie . Amsterdammer Don Ceder on the Christian Union party list . 18 October 2020 . Dutch . Het Parool . 18 October 2016 .
  10. Web site: Don Ceder . . 18 October 2020 .
  11. News: Waarom deze jonge christenen de Tweede Kamer in willen . Why these young Christians want to enter the House of Representatives . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . . 25 February 2017 . Beverdam . Gerard . Sloot . Eduard .
  12. News: Incasso is soms puur wildwest . Debt collection is sometimes like the Wild West . Dutch . Het Parool . 26 September 2014 . 7 . Meershoek . Patrick .
  13. News: Stichting wil compensatie om 'gratis' telefoon bij abonnement . Foundation wants compensation for 'free' phone with subscription . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . . . 31 December 2015 .
  14. Stagiaire-ondernemer Don Ceder: 'Qua diversiteit valt er nog veel te verbeteren' . Ceder . Don . 20 October 2020 . Dutch . Advocatie . 2 March 2016 . Joris Rietbroek . Entrepreneur trainee Don Ceder: 'A lot of improvement could be made in the area of diversity' .
  15. News: Het jonge talent van 2019 . The young talent of 2019 . 20 October 2020 . Dutch . Advocatie Magazine . March 2019 . 23 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201023092534/http://advocatiemagazine.sdu.nl/2019-advocatie-magazine-01/young-talent/ . dead .
  16. News: Amsterdamse advocaat en politicus Don Ceder is volgens Forbes één van de invloedrijkste personen van Europa . Amsterdam lawyer and politician Don Ceder is one of the most influential persons in Europe according to Forbes . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . . De Graaff . Abel . 23 January 2018 .
  17. Web site: Vrouw met spijt van abortus laat foetus inschrijven in Basisregistratie Personen . De Volkskrant . subscription . 19 October 2020 . Dutch . 20 April 2019 . Woman who regretted abortion registers fetus in civil registry . Tempelman . Olaf .
  18. News: ChristenUnie-raadslid Don Ceder: 'Ik betaal een prijs, maar doe dat graag' . Christian Union councilor Don Ceder: 'I am paying a price but have no problem with that' . 19 October 2020 . Dutch . Het Parool . 1 September 2020 . Couzy . Michiel . Koops . Ruben .
  19. News: Compensatie roept gemengde reacties op bij slachtoffers toeslagenaffaire . Compensation causes mixed reaction amongst victims childcare benefits scandal . . Dutch . 22 December 2020 . 26 January 2021 .
  20. Defensie en de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen . 21 March 2021 . nl . Defensiekrant . 6 . Brouwer . Evert . 19 February 2021 . Defense and the general election .
  21. News: Stemlokaal: de mooiste posters . Polling station: the prettiest posters . Bol . Stephan . Dutch . Nederlands Dagblad . 10 March 2014 . 17 October 2020 .
  22. News: Noord-Holland = Den Haag . North Holland = The Hague . Dutch . Het Parool . 2 December 2014 . Meershoek . Patrick . 4 .
  23. News: CU-raadslid Ceder na zetelwinst: Christelijke politiek Amsterdam springlevend . CU council member Ceder after winning a seat: Christian politics is fully alive in Amsterdam . 23 March 2018 . 18 October 2020 . Dutch . . Bakker . Michiel .
  24. News: Nieuwe gemeenteraad Amsterdam geïnstalleerd . NU.nl . ANP . 18 October 2020 . Dutch . 29 March 2018 . New municipal council of Amsterdam installed .
  25. News: Even voorstellen: de nieuwe gemeenteraad van Amsterdam . First an introduction: the new Amsterdam municipal council . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . 31 March 2018 . Het Parool . Couzy . Michiel . Koops . Ruben .
  26. News: Bundel van de PS van 12 september 2018 . Dutch . Bundle of the 12 September 2018 states-provincial . PDF . 3 . 12 September 2018 . 20 October 2020 . .
  27. Web site: Kandidaten 2019-2023 . Candidates 2019–2023 . Dutch . ChristenUnie Noord-Holland . 20 October 2020 .
  28. Web site: Proces-verbaal zitting 15-04-2019 - geldigheid en nummering kandidatenlijsten, verkiezing Europees Parlement . PDF . 20 October 2020 . Dutch . Kiesraad . 15 April 2019 . Records session 15-04-2019 - validity and numbering of party list, European Parliament election . 14 . 21 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201021225912/https://www.kiesraad.nl/adviezen-en-publicaties/proces-verbalen/2019/pvs-zittingen-kiesraad/pv-zitting-geldigheid-lijsten-en-lijstnummering-15-04/proces-verbaal-geldigheid-en-nummering-kandidatenlijsten---ep-verkiezingen-2019-15-04-2019 . dead .
  29. News: ChristenUnie: ook Amsterdamse kinderen zonder burgerservicenummer hebben recht op stage of stadspas . De Volkskrant . subscription . 19 October 2020 . Dutch . 20 December 2018 . Gualthérie van Weezel . Tjerk . Amsterdam children without a national identity number also have a right to an internship or a city pass .
  30. News: Meerderheid gemeenteraad pleit voor kinderpardon . Het Parool . Majority municipal council advocates pardon for children . 11 September 2018 . 19 October 2020 . Dutch .
  31. News: ChristenUnie: Sluit alle ramen op de Wallen . . Dutch . 19 October 2020 . 7 October 2019 . Claus . Sybilla . Christian Union: Close all windows in De Wallen .
  32. News: Amsterdamse CU'er Ceder oreert met één hand in zijn broekzak . Reformatorisch Dagblad . Dutch . 19 October 2020 . 10 July 2019 . Provoost . Ben . Amsterdam CU member Ceder orates with one hand in his pocket .
  33. News: Don Ceder (CU) gaat niet naar de Tweede Kamer: 'We zijn met wat moois bezig in Amsterdam' . Don Ceder (CU) will not enter the House of Representatives: 'We are in the middle of something beautiful in Amsterdam' . Dutch . 19 October 2020 . . 14 January 2019 .
  34. News: Carola Schouten achter lijsttrekker Segers op kandidatenlijst ChristenUnie . . Dutch . 19 October 2020 . Meesterburrie . Arjan . 9 October 2020 . Carola Schouten after lijsttrekker Segers on party list Christian Union .
  35. News: Mars voor het Leven met vijftig mensen en digitaal: 'Geen losse leuzen. Laten we meer praten over abortus' . March for Life with fifty people and digitally: 'No empty slogans. Let's talk more about abortion' . 16 November 2020 . Van der Kolk . Ruth . Dutch . 14 November 2020 . Nederlands Dagblad .
  36. News: Nog enkele debatten te gaan: wie daagt Rutte uit in de laatste campagneweek? . Trouw . nl . 20 March 2021 . 8 March 2021 . Zuidervaart . Bart . Still a few debates to go: Who will challenge Rutte in the last week of the campaign? .
  37. Web site: Don Ceder . . 31 March 2021 . 27 March 2022 .
  38. Web site: Over Don Ceder . About Don Ceder . 30 June 2024 . nl . ChristenUnie .
  39. News: De Volkskrant . subscription . 29 August 2023 . nl . Literatuur over ons koloniale verleden is aan een opmars bezig. Wat zijn de opvallendste boeken? . 29 June 2023 . Koekkoek . Cécile . Literature about our colonial history is on the rise. What are the most striking books? .
  40. News: ChristenUnie: deze week debat over Afghanistan met Rutte . 5 October 2021 . Christian Union: A debate about Afghanistan with Rutte this week . nl . NPO Radio 1 . 6 September 2021 .
  41. News: ChristenUnie blijft worstelen met asieldeal: 'Net te dragen' . 1 October 2022 . NOS . 27 November 2022 . nl . Christian Union continues to struggle with asylum deal: 'Just barely accept' .
  42. News: Kamerleden willen geen verplichte terugvordering meer bij fout met uitkering . NOS . 1 May 2022 . 23 February 2022 . nl . House members do not want compulsory compensation anymore in case of mistake with welfare .
  43. News: ChristenUnie wil af van perverse incassopraktijk bij schuldenaren . . ANP . nl . 24 June 2023 . Christian Union wants to get rid of perverted debt collection practices . 18 April 2023 .
  44. News: 'We moeten af van armoede als verdienmodel' . subscription . 24 June 2023 . nl . . 30 April 2023 . 'We should get rid of poverty as a revenue model' . Van der Leij . Lien .
  45. News: ChristenUnie wil TikTok-verbod, ook kabinet maakt zich zorgen over privacy . NOS . nl . 27 November 2022 . 11 November 2022 . Christian Union wants TikTok ban, cabinet is also worried about privacy .
  46. Ceder . Don . Don Ceder: 'Levendigheid is uniek voor Zuidoost' . 19 October 2020 . Dutch . Het Parool . Don Ceder: 'Vibrancy is unique to Zuidoost' . 9 December 2018 . Misha Melita .
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    . 9 January 2023 . Ceder . Don . 4 February 2023 .
  48. News: Voor de ChristenUnie zit de groei in de Bijlmer . There is potential growth for the Christian Union in the Bijlmer . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . nrc.nl . 14 March 2017 . Ketelaar . Titia .
  49. News: The Passion kan in Amsterdam Zuidoost op een warm onthaal rekenen . The Passion can count on a warm welcome in Amsterdam-Zuidoost . Trouw . Dutch . 18 October 2020 . 27 March 2018 . Van Houten . Maaike .
  50. News: Don Ceder moest schaamte over stotteren overwinnen: 'Nu moet ik er om lachen dat ik advocaat en politicus ben' . subscription . nl . . 20 March 2021 . 10 October 2020 . Don Ceder had to overcome shame about stutter: 'I now have to laugh about the fact that I'm a lawyer and a politician' . Beverdam . Gerard .
  51. Web site: Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2017 (getekend exemplaar) . Dutch Electoral Council . nl . 21 December 2023 . PDF . 21 March 2017 . Results House of Representatives 2017 (signed example) . 118–119 .
  52. Web site: Proces-verbaal verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer 2021 . Dutch Electoral Council . nl . 21 December 2023 . PDF . 29 March 2021 . Report of the election results House of Representatives 2021 . 131–132 .
  53. Web site: Proces-verbaal van de uitslag van de verkiezing van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal 2023 d.d. 4 december 2023 . Dutch Electoral Council . nl . 21 December 2023 . PDF . 4 December 2023 . Report of the results of the election of the House of Representatives on 4 December 2023 . 109–110 .

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